FROM 1SS5 TO i8g6. 195 



On January 31st they had a very good day. The fixture 

 was Tockwith, and after drawing Wilstrop Wood blank, they 

 proceeded to Marston Whin, where they soon found, and 

 were as quickly in the open, running at a great pace over 

 the York road and past Marston village, pointing for Hutton 

 Thorns. Bearing to the left a little, they looked once like 

 making for Wilstrop Wood ; but instead of crossing the 

 road they kept on in an easterly direction, running at a 

 capital pace, and bearing to the right they ran on by 

 Rufforth and Knapton, below which village they pulled him 

 down after a severe forty minutes over a big and deep 

 country. As they went to draw Hutton Thorns they got 

 on the line of an outlying fox, and ran him fast, pointing 

 first for Askham. They soon turned, and ran in the direction 

 of Healaugh, and turning sharp back again passed through 

 Swann's Whin and Askham, and out to Hutton Thorns and 

 back again to Rufforth, and finally they marked their fox 

 to ground between Angram and Healaugh after a good but 

 somewhat twisting run. 



During the season they hunted one hundred and fifteen 

 days, killed sixty-seven brace of foxes, ran thirty-three brace 

 to ground, and were stopped nine days. 



1890-91. From this date I have little more to go upon 

 than my own notes and a few statistics which have been 

 furnished by Smith. The season under notice, which is the 

 first in which I hunted regularly with the Bramham Moor, 

 was a very good one, though for one reason or another I 

 chanced to miss their best thinos : a circumstance which is not 

 entirely without parallel amongst hunting men. The weather 

 played havoc with the season in some measure, as hounds 

 were confined to the kennel twenty-eight days. They hunted 

 one hundred and six days, killed sixty -seven brace of foxes, 

 and ran thirty-five brace to ground. They had one blank 

 day. Two very good gallops in February may be given as 



